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Introduction:

Welcome to the Hack of the Year competition for 2012! Hack of the Year is a culmination of all of the hard work and effort that has gone into developing some of the best hacks in The PokéCommunity over the past twelve months. This is the time when votes for hacks in a variety of categories to determine which ones are most deserving of recognition.

Rules:

You may not vote for your own hack

You may not vote for any of the designated ineligible hacks (see below)

You may only vote for one hack in each category

You may only vote once

Sideshow Showcase hacks are not elligible for nomination

Do not vote for a hack because you like the author; make your decisions as objective as possible

All posts in this thread must be nominations. There is a separate thread for general HotY discussion

Ineligible Hacks:

Pokémon Genesis: Author requested removal

Pokémon Shiny Gold: Author requested removal

Pokémon Ruby Destiny - Life of Guardians: Winner of HotY 2011

Pokémon Sienna: Winner of HotY 2010

Pokémon Azure Horizons: Winner of HotY 2009

Pokémon rijonAdventures: Winner of HotY 2008

Pokémon Prism: Winner of HotY 2007

Pokémon Liquid Ocean: Winner of HotY 2006

Pokémon Naranja: Winner of HotY 2005

Pokémon Ice: Winner of HotY 2004

Voting Form:

In order to place your vote, you will have to fill out the form below and post it in this thread.

Code:

Best Mapping:
Best Scripting:
Most Graphical Appeal:
Best Story Line:
Best Gameplay:
Most Engaging Hack:
Overall Favourite:

The explanations of each category are as follows:Best Mapping - The hack with the best mapsBest Scripting - The hack whose scripts impressed you the mostMost Graphical Appeal - The hack with the best overall visual presentationBest Story Line - The hack with the best plot/story lineBest Gameplay - The hack with the best features and that was the most fun to playMost Engaging Hack - The hack that kept you the most interested throughoutOverall Favourite - Your personal favourite hack

A hack gets one point for every category in which you vote for it. To demonstrate this, here is an example of a vote:

Quote originally posted by Example Vote:

Best Mapping: Genesis
Best Scripting: Prism
Most Graphical Appeal: Liquid Ocean
Best Storyline: Prism
Best Gameplay: Sienna
Most Engaging Hack: Life of Guardians
Overall Favourite: Prism

In this demonstration, Prism has three votes while Genesis, Liquid Ocean, Sienna and Life of Guardians hold one vote each.

The three hacks which have the most votes overall, regardless of the categories in which the votes are allocated, will progress to the second and final round where they will be judged by long-standing members of the community for the ultimate Hack of the Year title. In addition, the hack which has the most votes in a single category for this initial round will be awarded with a corresponding title (e.g. Best Mapping).

You have until January 1st to submit your votes. So now all of that is sorted, let the voting begin!

Credits to Hiroshi Sotomura, Manipulation, Thrace, Vrai and colcolstyles for contributing to this thread over the years.

soooo that's kinda difficult but I'll give it a try :D
Best Mapping: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Scripting: Pokemon Liquid Crystal
Most Graphical Appeal: Pokemon Silver Legend
Best Story Line: Pokemon Light Platinum
Best Gameplay: Pokemon Light Platinum
Most Engaging Hack: Pokemon Dark Rising
Overall Favourite: Pokemon Light Platinum
All in all that's what I believe about these awesome hacks :D Although I haven't tried every single hack in this forum I believe these are the best! Cheers for the first reply :D

Best Mapping: Victory Fire by Wind. To tell the truth, most maps I've seen in hacks tend to be either rehashes or just don't stand out. LP does have good mapping, but it is far too linear. Wind's maps are developed and less linear.
Best Scripting: Liquid Crystal by LaZ. Excellent usage of ASM such as Red Gyarados and Ruins of Alph. Overall best programming, one of the few hacks here that is bug-free and has unique ASM.
Most Graphical Appeal: Light Platinum by Wesley. Best tiles, hands down. Wesley did a great job in making LP seem like a 4th gen game, especially with the limit capabilities of GBA software.

Best Story Line: Snakewood by Cutlerine. Cutlerine's hack does what no other hack has ever done, add a proper and enthralling storyline to a Pokemon game. Not to mention this is one of the few hacks that use an advanced level of English.

Best Gameplay: Quartz by Baro. Call me crazy, but despite how his fakemon are considered to be downright ridiculous, Baro created one of the most highly innovative hacks in PC. I mean, who else here has made a 100% fakemon hack?

Most Engaging Hack: Liquid Crystal by LaZ. At first I thought it would have been another meh-ish remake. But to tell the truth, this hack has a lot more to offer than a simple GSC remake. Snakewood would have come first, but re-using Hoenn is sort of a turn-off.
Overall Favourite: Liquid Crystal by LaZ. It's not just a remake, aside from offering three vastly improved regions and buffing up Crystal's storyline, Liquid Crystal improves the gameplay experience via the Physica/Special split.

Best Mapping: Lilac
Best Scripting: Lilac
Most Graphical Appeal: Light Platinum
Best Story Line: Dark Rising
Best Gameplay: CrystalDust
Most Engaging Hack: /
Overall Favourite:649 Patch (even if my vote doesn't count, you should make an exseption for this hack)

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